You can flick sparks off the DualShock 4's touchpad, tilt the DualShock 4 to annoy the space robots, and bat around a space ball with your hands. It's a collection of terrible minigames, which show the different mechanics available with the combination of the Camera and the DualShock 4 controller - just with better graphics than most tech demos. When I got upstairs and found the 'tech demo' for 'the camera,' I found two people on a couch interacting with Sony's The Playroom game concept. Meanwhile, Sony hasn't even proved the PlayStation Camera can be used for experiences much beyond what you could do with the original Eye, or the last-gen Kinect. Gone are the days of exaggerated arm flailing and misheard voice commands in Kinect games. The Kinect's higher fidelity, better sound isolation, and more advanced APIs mean developers have many more tricks than last time. 'So once you say that's the palette that everyone will have forever, that's really important.' or whether it's a gamepad, and more importantly, how those all play together.' Together, he explains, it's that 'full package,' the couldn't-do-it-for-less-than-$499 package, that makes the Xbox One work.

Microsoft's Marc Whitten told us they did this purposefully so developers have a consistent 'palette' for creating experiences, 'whether it's touch. Not only is it shipping a Kinect with every console, the device actually has to be plugged into the Xbox One for the console to work. Microsoft, meanwhile, is taking the cram-down-the-throat approach. 'It's not something we're going to cram down people's throats,' is all. And, he points out, even if someone goes out and buys the $59 Camera peripheral, they'll still be in under the Xbox One's $499 pricetag. 'We wanted to make sure everyone could purchase a PS4 for $399,' Scott explained. Sony set the $399 pricepoint goal for the PS4 from day one, and the Camera obviously wasn't going to fit within that budget. 'Our focus was about how big and great the PS4 is, and everything it can do, and the price.'Īnd then, without even taking a breath, he asked: 'What was that price again?'Īnd that's really the whole point. 'It just wasn't our focus at this event,' he told me.

I pointed this out to Sony North America's game studio lead Scott Rohde, and he didn't seem too concerned.

As much as Sony wanted to claim the new PlayStation Camera was relevant and capable during the initial PS4 announce event, there was no mention of the device on Monday at Sony's E3 press conference, and it's still scarce on the E3 show floor, even in Sony's own booth. I guess it's hard for me to know what Sony calls something officially if they won't talk about it officially. It is a little loud on the show floor, I have a tendency to mumble, and at some point Sony actually officially renamed the PlayStation 4 Eye simply 'PlayStation Camera'. It's not entirely her fault the PR rep doesn't know what I'm talking about. 'Do you have any 'PlayStation Eye' games upstairs?'

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